DAVIDSON — Two of Gardner-Webb’s primary offensive weapons heading into the 2013 football season are included on their respective positional preseason watch lists by College Football Performance Awards.

Redshirt junior Kenny Cook (Clinton, S.C./Clinton HS) returns for his second season with the Runnin’ Bulldogs after leading the team in receptions (48) and yardage (666) last season. He also had a team-high seven touchdown receptions in taking All-Big South Conference honors.

An All-Big South Conference selection, Cranfill set single-season tight end receptions records for Gardner-Webb and the Big South Conference in 2012. He paced the league’s tight ends with 37 catches for 366 yards and two touchdowns.

The Runnin’ Bulldogs begin head coach Carroll McCray’s first season at 6 p.m. Aug. 31 when they host Furman.

GWU volleyball to host middle school camps — The Gardner-Webb volleyball program will host two local middle school camps for children in grades 6-8 in the month of June.

The 2013 TJCA Middle School Volleyball Camp will be held June 13-14 from 5-9 p.m. at the Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy Senior High campus. The cost is $65 per camper.

The 2013 Shelby Middle School Volleyball Camp will be held June 17-19 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Shelby High. The cost for the three-night camp is $75 per camper.

Campers are asked to bring a snack and something to drink each night for the break in between the two sessions.

For more information go to www.gwusports.com or contact GWU assistant coach Bethany Martin at 704-406-3260 or by email at bmartin@gardner-webb.edu.

Gardner-Webb golf signee takes 2nd at Salisbury tournament — Gardner-Webb women’s golf 2013 signee Sarah Bertram of Concord posted a second-place finish at the 2013 Open Championship of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour held at the historic Donald Ross Course at the Country Club of Salisbury.

With her top-three finish, Bertram received an exemption into the sixth major tournament of the season, the Tournament of Champions, which is being held on the North Course at the Moss Creek Country Club in Hilton Head, S.C., in September.

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